July 27, 2004
GPL Compliance for Software Developers
What's not in copyright law
What's not in copyright law
Copyright doesn't cover the following (17 USC 102):
ideas
procedures
processes
systems
methods of operation
concepts
principles
discoveries
facts
executing software
(17 USC 117)
US government works
(17 USC 105)
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